T&T's Ron­dell So­ril­lo fin­ished sev­enth in the Men's 200m fi­nals on the penul­ti­mate day of ac­tion at the 13th IAAF World Out­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Daegu Sta­di­um, Daegu, South Ko­rea yes­ter­day. So­ril­lo start­ed in lane one af­ter he did not se­cure one of the au­to­mat­ic top two spots in Fri­day's semi­fi­nals. The three-time na­tion­al cham­pi­on crossed the line in 20.34 sec­onds, his fastest in the cham­pi­onships. But the Nike pro was left in the shad­ows of world record hold­er Us­ain Bolt, who sped to an amaz­ing 19.40 sec­ond time to take the gold. The time was the fourth fastest ever run, be­hind Bolt's 19.19 and 19.30 and Michael John­son's 19.32. Bolt's win was his first of the meet af­ter his sur­prise false-start dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion in the 100m dash one week ago. Amer­i­can Cham­pi­on Wal­ter Dix was sec­ond in 19.70 with Eu­ro­pean cham­pi­on Christophe Lemaitre of France tak­ing the bronze in a French record of 19.80. Nor­way's Jay­suma Sai­da Ndure (19.95), Nick­el Ash­meade of Ja­maica (20.29) and Brazil­ian Bruno de Bar­rios (20.31) all got to the line ahead of So­ril­lo.

2009 World Cham­pi­onships run­ner up Alon­so Ed­wards of Pana­ma did not fin­ish the race. Speak­ing af­ter race, So­ril­lo said he was sat­is­fied on mak­ing his first glob­al fi­nal ap­pear­ance. "I feel pret­ty good. I was dis­ap­point­ed to come out with­out a medal but at the same time, I have ac­com­plished a lot in this cham­pi­onship." The La Brea run­ner al­so said de­spite com­pet­ing against the world's best run­ners, he was not dis­tract­ed. "I was think­ing about run­ning and noth­ing else... any­thing else would have been a dis­trac­tion." The 25-year-old im­proved on his semi­fi­nal plac­ing at the last World Cham­pi­onships in Berlin, Ger­many, two years ago where he was sixth in 20.63. So­ril­lo and Women's 100m bronze medal­list Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste are the on­ly lo­cal ath­letes to place in the top eight so far in the cham­pi­onships.